Town officials and organizers of the Good4Olds challenge on the Anonymous Good website are promoting a new effort to bump up the number of postings on the site.
It's called Feel Good Fridays.
From now until June, 2015, Olds residents are encouraged to post good deeds and good acts every Friday to the Good4Olds Challenge part of the anonymous good site (anonymousgood.org).
It's all part of the town's anonymous good campaign.
The town and Dot Negropontes, who brought the idea back from the U.S. are urging Olds residents to post 5,000 acts of good will on the site by June, 2015. Each time they do, sponsors donate 50 cents for each deed.
The good acts can be posted to #Good4_Olds, Alberta, Canada on the Anonymous Good website under the “challenges,” then “recent” menus.
Town chief operating officer Doug Wagstaff says so far organizers are far short of their 5,000 posts goal. As of last week, less than 1,100 good acts had been posted.
So the town is trying o make it easier for people – especially those who aren't familiar with computers and websites -- to post good acts and deeds.
“Not everyone in the community is tech savvy, comfortable going online and posting online, so we're connecting groups in the community with school groups,” Wagstaff said during an Uptowne Olds Committee meeting.
“One of the examples is NU-2-U. One of the volunteers there is at that age range where they're not on their computer and they're not on their hand-held devices.
“But we've connected them with one of the schools. So the ladies there are recording down in a little journal, writing down the acts of good they're seeing in their lives, seeing in the store.
“Then each week that goes to one of the schools and some of the kids in the middle school at Deer Meadow are then going in and typing them in.”
The next stage in the campaign is to set up the same sort of arrangement in seniors' lodges and to contact churches in the area, urging their congregations to get involved.
Wagstaff was asked if there are plans to make Good Friday (the Friday before Easter Sunday) a special Feel Good Friday.
Wagstaff said he hadn't thought that far ahead because that's in the spring.
